10 Art-iculation The Barbican estate is arguably the most ambitious housing estate ever built, boasting four thousand apartments, cultural centres, civic amenities and communal landscapes connected by a maze of elevated walkways. As well as its rare plethora of building genres, the Barbican estate is located in the city of London, the buzzing core of one of the greatest cities in the world. Fenced by financial power from England’s strongest industries, the Barbican’s presence does not fall short of its surroundings, situated on 160,000 square metres. Its ambitious plan, thorough design and Brutalist history are what make the Barbican so significant to me, and so wonderfully British. The estate was designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon to reinvent an area devastatingly blitzed duringWW2. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon had already gained a successful reputation after the Golden Lane estate construction. They were young architects with alluring plans to take influence from Scandinavian Barbican estate the
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